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...Shah finally got his country back in 1946 and boldly sent troops into Azerbaijan, Iran's northernmost province, to throw out a puppet regime the Soviets had left behind. Three years later, he came within a hair's breadth of death at the hands of a leftist fanatic who opened fire with a pistol as the Shah was handing out diplomas at Teheran University. Three shots drilled the Shah's hat, another creased his lip and right cheek and, as he dived to the ground, a fifth hit him in the left shoulder. Bodyguards riddled the would...
...sovereign assembly," that "no nation of Latin America tas dared to have diplomatic relations with the Popular Republic of [Communist] China. The Revolutionary Government wishes to ask the people if it wants to establish relations." The chant rose: "Si, si, si." Said Castro: "We herewith break relations with the puppet regime of Chiang Kai-shek...
Rigoletto & Lady Zorro. Along Blackpool's strand last week, 14 vaudeville and burlesque houses were offering everything from rock 'n' roll to arias from Rigoletto, and a "direct from America" girly show featuring a black-masked nude known as Lady Zorro. There was a puppet show, an acrobatic act, a North American dog act, and a show called Don't Stop, You're Killing Me, a revue thinly disguised as melodrama, which incorporated a squad of "police" who, more or less as if sent by Luigi Pirandello, entered the theater telling everyone in the audience...
...such ground breaking, the Latino delegates reacted almost by instinct. They condemned Herter's plan out of hand as a mere trick aimed at letting Trujillo off, accused Herter of being taken in by Trujillo's current show of democracy (last week Trujillo's latest puppet President proposed an amnesty for political crimes...
...months ago, Lopez Mateos found himself compelled to reassure the nation that he was no right-winger. He gave Castro's touring Puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos a warm welcome to Mexico City. The leader of Lopez Mateos' P.R.I. made a speech describing the government as "carefully leftist." The President followed with a carefully meaningless statement that "within the constitution, my government is on the extreme left." Still for domestic consumption, P.R.I.'s congressional leader greeted U.S. curtailment of the Cuban sugar quota (which benefited Mexico) with a pledge of "solidarity with the people of Cuba...